MYSTERY & THRILLER
September 2022
THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE
Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing a tech innovator, Tom is rich; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous
THE IT GIRL
Ruth Ware
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder. After John Neville, the man convicted of killing her best friend April ten years earlier, dies in prison, expectant mother Hannah Jones, after new evidence surfaces proving his innocence, reconnects with old friends to solve the mystery of April's death and realizes they all have something to hide--including a murder
LAST TO VANISH
New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda returns with a gripping and propulsive thriller that opens with the disappearance of a journalist who is investigating a string of vanishings in the resort town of Cutter’s Pass will its dark secrets finally be revealed?
DARK OBJECTS
Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy
ONE OF THE GIRLS
The latest twisty psychological thriller from internationallybestselling author Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls is the delicious story of a bachelorette trip on a stunning Greek island that ends in murder
WE LIE HERE
Rachel Howzell Hall
A woman ’ s trip home reveals frightening truths in a twisty novel of murder and family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of And Now She’s Gone and These Toxic Things
Simon Toyne
Riley Sager
Megan Miranda
Lucy Clarke
POINT LAST SEEN
Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Karin Slaughter and Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd’s all-new thriller, POINT LAST SEEN, will have readers keeping the lights on all night.
CANT LOOK AWAY
Carola Lovering
From the author of Tell Me Lies and Too Good to Be True comes Carola Lovering's Can't Look Away, a sexy suspense novel about the kind of addictive, obsessive love that keeps you coming back––no matter how hard you try to look away
DIRT CREEK
A young woman's escalating obsession with a seemingly perfect man leads her down a dangerous path in this "delicious and marvelously controlled" (The New York Times Book Review) novel of suspense
JUST LIKE HOME
Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren't alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera's childhood for spare parts He insists that he isn't the one leaving notes around the house in her father's handwriting... but who else could it possibly be? There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes
THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK
Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the awardwinning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.
LOOK CLOSER
Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing's for sure ... absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer
Jennifer Hillier
Hayley Scrivenor
Sarah Gailey
Christina Dodd
David Ellis
ALL THE DIRTY SECRETS
One warm summer night twenty-five years ago, Liza Gold and her friends celebrated their high school graduation with a party on the beach. It should have been the best night of their lives, only, one of them never came back out of the ocean.
WE MADE IT ALL UP
Margot Harrison
Celeste Bergstein moves to a small town in Montana to escape her past, only to become embroiled in her new home town's twisted secrets when the school's star athlete--who is also the subject of Celeste's writings-is found dead at the mouth of a cave
WINTER WORK
An exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor, the CIA agent readers will know from Safe House and The Cover Wife.
THE LOCAL Joey Harstone
The Lincoln Lawyer in the land of Friday Night Lights, where a freewheeling patent attorney must take on his first murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge
THEKEYTODECIET
The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgarnominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit
TAKE NO NAMES
Victor Li is a man without a past. To his new employer, Mark, he's just an anonymous hired hand to help with the dirty work. Together, they break into storage units that contain the possessions of the recently deported, pocketing whatever is worth selling Only Victor and his sister, Jules, know that he's a wanted man
HAWK MOUNTAIN
Conner Habib
An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water's edge As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years, but now seems overjoyed to have "run into" his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to catch up And can he spend the night? What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and cunning As Jack invades Todd's life, pain and intimidation from the past unearth knife-edge suspense in the present.
THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY
Sulari Gentill
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
Daniel Nieh
Dan Fesperman
Ashley Weaver
Aggie Blum Thompson
THE TUESDAY NIGHT SURVIVORS' BOOK CLUB
Survivors become sleuths to find a missing member of their book club in new-age Sedona, Arizona Therapeutic unity is disrupted when one of their members suddenly goes missing Martha has always kept to herself, never opening up much of her personal life to the group Now she’s nowhere to be found
BLACK GIRLS LEFT STANDING
Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder -- Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing
CLAUSE OF DEATH
Barrett
Bookstore owner Tricia Miles tries to open a new chapter in life, but murder mars the pages in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series Stoneham's new police chief is an old friend of Tricia's, but that doesn't mean he's going to go easy on her sister. One might even say that he's going to throw the book at her.
A SECRET ABOUT A SECRET
A gripping new mystery about a shadowy government agent investigating a bizarre murder in an ominous research facility. Myles, an agent with the powerful and mysterious government agency Standard Division, is sent to investigate the murder of Allegra, a brilliant young researcher, whose body is found in the walk-in refrigerator of the remote campus for Ondstrand Biologic. Cunning, persistent, and willing to lean on the authority of his badge, Myles begins to unravel the sequence of events that led to her death and narrow down the list of suspects
THE NEW NEIGHBOR
Karen Cleveland
Idyllic neighborhood, perfect family, meaningful career CIA analyst Beth Bradford has it all Until she doesn’t. Now, facing an empty nest and a broken marriage, Beth is moving from the cul-desac she’s long called home, and the CIA is removing her from the case that’s long been hers: tracking an elusive Iranian intelligence agent known as The Neighbor
THE SELF-MADE WIDOW
From the cocreator of Deadpool and author of Suburban Dicks comes a diabolically funny murder mystery that features two incredibly likable--and unlikely--sleuths investigating a murder that reveals the dark underbelly of suburban marriage.
Peter Spiegelman
Juliana Goodman
Lorna
Lynn Cahoon
Fabian Nicieza
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